Quotes About Tradition

We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other peoples religion, and we have a long tradition of that.

Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.

Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.

Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.

A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.

I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.

Tea...is a religion of the art of life.

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them.

Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.

That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

Everyone just did what their parents did. So that immediately made me skeptical of the whole religion thing, even as a kid. So I never was really into religion as a concept.

I know what I'm giving up for Lent: my New Year's resolutions.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

Religion supports and perpetuates the social organization it reflects.

It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion.

The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.